RESUME

Job Target: Elec. Engineer

Employment History:

• 23rd July 1996-current: Lecturing and tutoring part time to Bachelor of Technology students at Monash University (Caulfield and Frankston). Lecturing for 2 hours per week in 3rd year Electronic Instrumentation and tutoring for 8 hours per week in 2nd year Operating Systems.

• 4th July 1996-current: Working part time as an Electronics Technician/Engineer at the Tech Road / Dyco factory at 22 Wise Ave, Seaford. Tech Road specialise in microprocessor controlled traffic management systems such as mobile solar and diesel powered traffic light systems, large mobile electronic message boards and line marking machines. My responsibilities include testing and fixing faulty boards to component level, installation, testing and/or fault finding of line marking machine wiring looms and accessories, and embedded systems reprogramming in Assembly (Motorola).

• Work Experience: March 1996-17th July 1996: Part time Technical Assistant to Eric Lim (Electronics Projects Lab. Manager) and Paul Jenkins (Electronics Engineer) in the Elec. Engineering Department, Monash University (Caulfield campus). Performed various general tasks.

  Responsibilities:

  • Design, construction, testing/fault finding of circuits needed by more senior staff.
  • Manning of the Electronics Components store which involves selling printed lecture notes, looking up data books and distribution of components and software to students.
  • Supervision of students using power tools to safely build their projects.
  • Involved in the management of a LAN of SUN workstations including installation and authoring of WWW software to represent the department.
  • Installation of anti-viral and educational software in departmental PCs as well as hardware such as motherboards, disk drives, CD-ROMs and soundblaster cards.

  Achievements:

  • Successful completion of circuits designed, built and tested, computer hardware and software successfully installed, viruses caught.
  • Better practical skills in areas ranging from installing a disk drive to removing and fixing a heavy motor from a lathe.
  • Enhanced communication and customer relations skills.
  • Clear understanding of the need to meet deadlines.
  • Improved level of professionalism.

Undergraduate Skills:

• Can design, simulate, build and test analogue and digital electronics PCB's using software such as ViewLogic with VHDL (SUN/DECstation), Protel (PC), Orcad (PC), Pspice (PC) and AutoCAD (PC).
• Strong computer knowledge including DOS/Windows (PC), UNIX/X-Windows/Motif Windows (DEC) and OpenWindows (SUN) environments and computer hardware. Very good programming ability in C/C++, as well as Pascal, Basic, Assembly, Java, CGI and HTML skills. Programs written cover a wide variety of areas such as databases, graphics and DSP(FFT)/mathematics.

• Successfully completed projects such as a digital stopwatch, digital image processing program (co-written, in C) and an analogue Electrocardiogram biosignal processing module from the concept / design phases through the debugging / troubleshooting phases to a satisfactorily operational result with Distinction grades or better.
• Completed 33% more final year subjects than required to graduate, achieved a 4th year average of 74% and 2nd class Honours for the whole course.
• Achieved High Distinctions in the areas of Communications, Electronic Design, Digital Signal Processing, Computer Applications and Biomedical Instrumentation, as well as Distinctions in subjects such as Industrial Project, Computer Communications, Engineering Management and Electronics, many Credits.

• 1995 - Bachelor of Electrical / Electronics and Computer Systems Engineering (2nd class Honours), Monash University (Caulfield Campus).
• Invited to join the Monash chapter of the Golden Key National Honour Society (represented at 225 Universities in the USA), which is offered to the top 15% of students in a Bachelor course.

• Mr. Brian Lithgow
  Phone: 9903 2097 (BH)

  Mr. Paul Jenkins

  Phone: 9903 2189 (BH)

• Outside University I am currently feeding my personal interest in Elec. Engineering by working on an 8031 microcontroller based car trip computer / speedo / tachometer from scratch, investigating the modification of a car security system to provide better protection at a budget and building a knock sensor kit.
• Initiated and successfully managed a football tipping competition at University in 1994 and 1995 with a prize pool of more than $200. Showed leadership and improved my administrative and public relations skills.
• Achieved a 2nd Dan black belt in Taekwondo, learnt about discipline and the rewards of achieving short and long term goals through dedication and hard work.
• Currently in 2nd highest downhill snow skiing level, expect further improvement this year with 1st class classification as one of my goals in 1996.
• Showed initiative by creating the world's one and only Cold Chisel home page on the Internet's World Wide Web (http://netspace.net.au/~justin/chisel/). Praised by fans and associates of the band via E-mail.
• Keen weekend interest in building electronics circuits for my car and tinkering with and modifying its mechanical components and EFI system.